{"id":60886,"date":"2014-01-31T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=60886"},"modified":"2014-03-29T17:10:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T22:10:39","slug":"this-month-in-socimages-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/31\/this-month-in-socimages-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month in SocImages (January 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SocImages News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A proud father shared with us a letter written by his daughter, 7 year old Charlotte, to the LEGO company. \u00a0She asked for for more female minifigs and more adventure for girls. \u00a0We put the letter out on social media this week and it&#8217;s been re-tweeted over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SocImages\/status\/428264365943316480\" target=\"_blank\">1,000<\/a> times and shared over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/socimages?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">3,000<\/a> times on Facebook. \u00a0This is how social media can be used to put pressure on companies to change. \u00a0Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>Well done Charlotte and big thanks to Dad!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/113.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61261\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/113-500x361.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/113-500x361.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/113.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reader&#8217;s Picks of the Month:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/08\/nevada-offers-teachers-personal-loans-to-buy-school-supplies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teachers offered personal loans to buy school supplies<\/a> (9,500 shares)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/13\/a-little-theory-of-homophobia\/\" target=\"_blank\">A little theory of homophobia<\/a> (4,600 shares)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/26\/resistance-to-objectifying-advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative resistance to sexually objectifying advertising<\/a> (2,800 shares)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/27\/whats-ikea-for-cultural-differences-in-appropriate-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Ikea for? Cultural differences in appropriate behavior<\/a> (2,200 shares)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/11\/more-similarities-than-differences-in-study-of-race-and-fatherhood\/\" target=\"_blank\">More similarities than differences in a study of race and fatherhood<\/a> (1,900 shares)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/06\/40-years-since-women-were-granted-the-right-to-credit-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">40 years since women were granted the right to credit cards<\/a> (1,200 shares)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/20\/martin-luther-king-jr-sociology-major\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pssssst. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a sociology major<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Social Media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/socimages\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Sociological-Images-Seeing-Is-Believing\/8399768839\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/socimages.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/2\/114500008673351112338\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/socimages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a>. \u00a0I\u2019m on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lisawadephd\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and most of the team is on Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\" target=\"_blank\">@lisawade<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gwensharpnv\" target=\"_blank\">@gwensharpnv<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/familyunequal\" target=\"_blank\">@familyunequal<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JayLivingston\" target=\"_blank\">@jaylivingston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other news&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay warm New Orleans! \u00a0I&#8217;m arriving on Monday and I expect you to be hospitable!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/212.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61263\" alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/212-500x370.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/212-500x370.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/212.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the city, I&#8217;d love to get together! \u00a0I&#8217;ll be there through Mardi Gras. \u00a0Send an email to socimages@thesocietypages.org and I&#8217;ll be in touch!\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SocImages News: A proud father shared with us a letter written by his daughter, 7 year old Charlotte, to the LEGO company. \u00a0She asked for for more female minifigs and more adventure for girls. \u00a0We put the letter out on social media this week and it&#8217;s been re-tweeted over\u00a01,000 times and shared over 3,000 times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-60886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/102.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61270,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886\/revisions\/61270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}